Here's the standard, FEP-1b12: Group federation -- finalized in February.
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2023
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@jdp23 will take a read through this, thanks!
I think it's also compatible with Friendica groups, and forums like Discourse are testing out federation as well, so there's certainly potential. @[email protected] calls it "the threadiverse", I wasn't sure about the term at first but it's growing on me
I can’t point you to the details, but yes things have been worked in at the protocol level for groups. It got finalised sometime this year.
I don’t know whether any future work will be compliant with it though.
Lack of [private] groups are one of the things keeping me from spinning up an instance, because the people I'd like to prise away from FB need that.
I know there are options, but the clearest way to having a backup admin is a managed service.
Local-only posts would be spiffy too, but groups should push the bar far enough
@jessel @lemmy @Gargron Groups have multiple meanings tho...
"groups" as in.. a.gup.pe - people post into the group account, and it boosts for everybody following the group account to see on the main timeline like any other account.
groups as in - private group chats - a bunch of people posting to each other (not searchable/not public)
groups as in subreddits.. you subscribe to the group, and you can toot into that group... these toots are inside the group but fully interactive inside the group.
@jessel what does "support groups natively" mean to you ?
There are Group objects in the ActivityPub vocabulary already.
Posting to a group is already covered by well trodden interactions.
With a little charity with regards to the interpretation of some other vocabulary activities we can say that joining/leaving a group are also there.
What more do you think is needed?
@mariusor i guess help me understand how we, as mastodon users, can browse and interact with lemmy content without having to use their UI or account?
if i follow @lemmy on mastodon, it seems to be a feed of unstructured replies and comments that don’t have logical cohesion. is that because they are not using the Group objects in ActivityPub? and/or the Mastodon client doesn’t support Groups natively?
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